E. Benjamin Samuels

Despite a promising start, Harvard field hockey struggled through its fall season, finishing 5-12 for the year and 2-5 against Ivy League opponents.

There has been one Queen of England, but that’s about all that has been constant in the 50 years since the Harvard class of 1960 graduated.

Over the next few days, we'll be pulling snippets from The Crimson archives to commemorate the coming class reunions. You'll see selections from the graduation year of each class celebrating a reunion next week. Their representation might be weak next weekend, but the class of 1945 is still celebrating its 65th reunion this year.

After clinching a playoff berth on Saturday at home against Dartmouth (14-27, 11-9 Ivy), the Crimson (25-20, 17-3) played two contests in Hanover yesterday in games that had little consequence for either team.

Kim Goh recently returned from Argentina, where she played for the United States Under-19 women’s field hockey team.

The Harvard softball team (18-19, 9-3 Ivy) swept its doubleheader at home against Brown (15-18, 3-9) at Soliders Field despite scoring only six runs over the two games.

Harvard Law School Professor Alan M. Dershowitz has agreed to serve on the defense team of R. Allen Stanford, who was arrested last June after allegations of his involvement in a Ponzi scheme.

Harvard (10-17, 4-4 Ivy), playing against Columbia (15-13, 6-2 Ivy) at O’Donnell Field yesterday, lost both games of its doubleheader with the Lions.

Opening its Ivy League season, the Harvard women’s tennis team handily defeated Columbia (9-10, 0-3 Ivy), 7-0, on Friday and Cornell (11-7, 1-2), 5-2, on Saturday at the Beren Tennis Center.

If you’re a gambling man, you might be better off taking your money to Vegas than putting it on admission to any Ivy League school. This year Harvard had a 6.9 percent acceptance rate. Book of Odds, a Web site which describes itself as “a reference on the odds of everyday life,” has converted that number into betting style odds.